(Atlanta Journal COnstitution) The federal appeals court in Atlanta has upheld a Board of Regents policy that prevents immigrant students who’ve received a special deportation reprieve from attending three of the state’s top universities.
The court’s ruling Wednesday applies to immigrants who have been accepted into the Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. DACA encourages government officials not to enforce federal immigration laws against certain children who were brought illegally to the U.S. before they turned 16 years old.The regents’ prohibition involves those students who want to attend the University of Georgia, Georgia Tech or Georgia College & State University, the ruling
